2   DEGREES AND CURRICULA
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E   _ COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND HOME ECONOMICS
¤ Thomas Poe Cooper, B.S., D.Sc., LL.D., Dean
{ i Levi Jackson Horlacher, B.S., M.S., Assistant Dean
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S I ~. INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT
n   Organization. Agriculture was one of the first subjects taught
in the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky. The
{ Department of Botany, Horticulture, and Agriculture was organized
. in 1878 and existed as such until 1908 when it became the College
»· * of Agriculture. The Department of Domestic Economy was orga-
>S 2 nized in 1906 and in 1918 it became the Department of Home Eco-
" nomics in the College of Agriculture. In 1941 the name of the Col-
-‘ ' lege of Agriculture was changed to College of Agriculture and
T Home Economics. The first class in agriculture was graduated in
`_ 1898 and the first class in home economics was graduated in 1913.
Q The principal function of the College is resident teaching in
CQ agriculture and home economics and for this purpose it is organized
`S L into eight departments: Agricultural Entomology, Agronomy (in-
d _ cluding Farm Engineering), Animal Industry, Animal Pathology,
¤ is Farm Economics (including Rural Sociology), Home Economics,
0   Horticulture (including Forestry), and Markets and Rural Finance.
5 · Associated with the College are the Agricultural Experiment Sta-
E   tion and the Agricultural Extension Division.
h   Aims and Purposes. The College of Agriculture and Home
n _ Economics was established for a particular purpose `that makes it
L different from almost any other type of college. Legislative acts
U ;. establishing the College, the Experiment Station, and the Extension
F Service make the College primarily an institution to serve rural
_f people. The College is successfully aiding rural people and has
U developed an educational procedure that fits students to assume
g responsibilities in various aspects of rural, as well as urban life. —
es i` The aim of the College is to educate young men and women for
I, 3 careers as useful citizens and leaders in all phases of agriculture and
)f home economics. This may be on the farm, in the home, in exten-
f sion work, in teaching, in nutrition, in research, in commercial
work, or in any other work that requires knowledge of the place
  that agriculture and home economics have in the world today. The
  outside field of opportunity is as wide as the relation of agriculture
I and home economics to industry, commerce, and finance. In all of - I
  those fields of endeavor new places and new uses are being found 1
g for well educated, able men and women.